[wplug] OpenGL -- doh! VCL (that would have been good to know ;)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 16:29 -0400, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> I'm using glt/gl.h (opengl) and glt/glu.h (opengl utility functions).

Yep.

> My application is built on top of Borland's VCL (yes, Windows), so I
> have the menu, window system, message handling in place.  I've got a
> panel on one of my frames which OpenGL is drawing on.
> I believe that all of the stuff that either SDL or GLUT can do that I
> need to, I've got it covered.  (Not positive.)

[ ^ Schtuff that would have been a great context in your first post ;-]

You're all set then.  You have a framework.  You know it.  OpenGL is
just the additive.  I wish I would have known you were already using
VCL.  I wouldn't have even mentioned SDL as a consideration.

That's why I wanted the application (and, hopefully, the related context
where you were coming from ;).

> But, this stuff is still fairly deep for me at this time.

It sounds like you're just fine.  You're just adding OpenGL atop of a
framework.

Borland had it's OCX framework for awhile, Qt-based from the GUI/widget
side, various other components (some non-free[dom]) for other things.  I
used it for a bit (being a former Object Pascal wennie) when Kylix came
out (I paid for all 3 versions -- 1, 2, 3 Developer/Professional).  Have
neither kept up with the OpenOCX project developments since, nor the
state of the free[dom] Object Pascal compiler that supports it.

> Fortunately, I'm at a university, so I have access to ebrary, which
> has everything I saw at Borders available online.  (Although
> admittedly, when I go to Borders, I sort of get tunnel vision.)

I'm over a decade removed from U Can't Finish** now, from which I
graduated with an EE that should have been marked with the honors "Summa
Damn Lucky," so you're way ahead of me.  In fact, I haven't been able to
call myself a "coder" since the '90s (rudimentary VxWorks at the
low-level, various higher-level stuff), and the most I could quality for
it "wanna be hacker" or "scripter" (although not quite as bad as a
"script kiddie") or "wow, I can instantiate the Java class in PeopleSoft
to have PeopleSoft do a socket call!" (i.e., big deal) these days.

Heck, if I went to DefCon I'd have to wear the T-shirt ...
  "Too White Hat / Non-Coding / 'No Hat' to Be the Fed"  

-- BS  

**NOTE:  Although the "higher graders" seem to keep us respectable in
the ACM Competition (which is typically made up of more engineering
majors than CS majors) -- tied CMU this year at the World Competition,
yet again:  
  http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals/Results-2007/standings-2007.htm  

25 year record (never #1, although #2 back in '87):  
  http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~contest/UCFProgrammingTeam/record.html  


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